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I saw that too, but via a tech news letter i get.
Supposed to be new and improved. But ya, ill stick with my local models, even if its slower..
Sat Feb 10 2024 11:56:18 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
Got an email from Goolag proudly announcing that "Bard" (their AI thing) is now called "Gemini"
Sorry Goog, but it's still opinionated and censored, I'll go somewhere else.
So read a bit more, i guess the one advantage (?) is its tied into your google account. So it can ( if you let it.. its not required ) read all your email, chats, browser history, bla bla so its 'tailored' to you. But ya, still cant be trusted. Between censorship/fact manipulation, and they also have to push their ad revenue.
And its replacing the 'hey google' voice assistant ( whatever that was called.. )
Sat Feb 10 2024 11:56:18 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
Got an email from Goolag proudly announcing that "Bard" (their AI thing) is now called "Gemini"
Sorry Goog, but it's still opinionated and censored, I'll go somewhere else.
I would love it if they made it mandatory by law to have a Google account, just so I could tell them to fuck themselves up their retarded assholes.
I am now in the process of de-GOOGing. Email is easy, just move the MX to somewhere sane. Any recommendations there? (I'm looking at fastmail, tuta).
I couldn't be bothered to run my own mail server these days.
The bigger problem is a 2FA authenticator that is not GOOG Authenticator.
Other choices I've found are MS Authenticator (ugh), Authy (which I liked, but is now owned by Twilio?!). Anything better?
Fastmail have been around for years, are affordable and reliable, and support U2F hardware keys. Only downside is they're in Australia, but nobody's perfect.
I am now in the process of de-GOOGing. Email is easy, just move the
MX to somewhere sane. Any recommendations there? (I'm looking at
fastmail, tuta).
I couldn't be bothered to run my own mail server these days.
My experience with hosted email is sub-par.
For a low volume server there is not much excuse for not renting a cheap VPS and installing an appliance such as mailcow or iRedMail on it.
For a low volume server there is not much excuse for not renting a
cheap VPS and installing an appliance such as mailcow or iRedMail on
it.
I'm rather fond of Citadel, myself. :)
To be honest however, 90% of the work of running a mail server isn't the software itself. That's easy nowadays. Newbies tend to have more trouble understanding not only MX records, but also things like SPF and DMARC which you kind of need now because Google will use any excuse they can to throw your mail into the spam bucket.
I've been giving some consideration to writing a HOWTO document and maybe even a walk through video.
And yes, there are actually still some people who think running your own mail server is some sort of pirate activity.
I'm rather fond of Citadel, myself. :)
To be honest however, 90% of the work of running a mail server isn't
the software itself. That's easy nowadays. Newbies tend to have more
trouble understanding not only MX records, but also things like SPF and
DMARC which you kind of need now because Google will use any excuse
they can to throw your mail into the spam bucket.
Lol, but Citadel is not an email appliance. It is an awe appliance. It is not exactly the same.
I think software email appliances nowadays have DMARC et al featured prominently in their docs.
y the way, part of the problem I have hard with hosted mail is that they used to be very bad at maintaining their DNS records so we got lots of DMARC failures.
That would be a good thing.
Mon Feb 12 2024 18:15:38 EST from IGnatius T FoobarI've been giving some consideration to writing a HOWTO document and maybe even a walk through video.
Just a reminder:
"Hey, I get it. Surely my little conspiracy theory is exaggerated. Some guy on Hacker News will tell me that they work as a SRE on Gmail and that I'm super wrong and that there are 100% legit reasons as to why things are this way. Okay. Do something for me, will you? Please unread this last section, I retract it. I just needed to get it out of my system. Thanks for indulging me. Done? Good. Everything else above is a fact. Email in 2022 is anti-competitive. The Gmail guy can go explain himself to the US Senate or the European Commission."
I expect it to get worse.
Walled garden mail systems will become the norm. " for your safety " of course. ( and to make it easier to monitor )
Mon Feb 12 2024 20:13:16 EST from nonservatorEmail in 2022 is anti-competitive.
I'd agree that it is difficult to run a mail server on a residential address, because those tend to be blacklisted. And because a lot of residential users use botnet-enrolled Windows machines as their daily drivers, most residential ISPs have blocked port 25 in both directions anyway. I remain *very* enamored with my Static IP VPN service. Absolutely the best $15/month I've spent.
And I will of course continue using it when I relocate the server this summer.
Of course the walled garden systems would prefer if no one self-hosted.
They all shut down federated XMPP and they'd shut down federated SMTP if they could get away with it. Telling someone to contact you on Facebook Messenger or on Instagram or on Signal or Telegram is like the bad old days of dialup where you had to reach your buddies on Compuserve or AOL or a local BBS where you both had accounts. These services have short memories and don't realize that if you make yourself a large enough obstacle, people *will* work around you.
cfenollosa gave up because it was more work than he was willing to put in, not because it is impossible.
Ya, they all have their walled chat. Sucks too. Be nice if everyone could just play nice together. Im sure email being 'open' is a thorn in their side, grinding away at the likes of Google and Apple. And why i was figuring at some point, they will wall off email, somehow. At the least have some sort of hybrid where all the cool features are internal. if they dont make it ot the point of "if you want to send mail, you have to have an account here"
But with the popularity of gardens like FB and X.. people may just accept it, this time...
( and is it just me is loading time really poor today around here? )
Tue Feb 13 2024 09:22:44 EST from IGnatius T FoobarI
Of course the walled garden systems would prefer if no one self-hosted.
They all shut down federated XMPP
Some engineer during a meeting stands up and starts yelling and waving his finger ' i wont be a part of feeding bla bla genocide caused by Israel'
Time to be firing someone. For a variety of reasons.
2024-03-05 13:48 from Nurb432
Some engineer during a meeting stands up and starts yelling and
waving his finger ' i wont be a part of feeding bla bla genocide
caused by Israel'
Time to be firing someone. For a variety of reasons.
Please, tell me the meeting was at least tangentially related to the subject.
No idea, only saw a small snippet.. where the idiot gets up and starts yelling.
Wed Mar 06 2024 04:19:22 EST from darknetuser2024-03-05 13:48 from Nurb432
Some engineer during a meeting stands up and starts yelling and
waving his finger ' i wont be a part of feeding bla bla genocide
caused by Israel'
Time to be firing someone. For a variety of reasons.
Please, tell me the meeting was at least tangentially related to the subject.
Some engineer during a meeting stands up and starts yelling and
waving his finger ' i wont be a part of feeding bla bla genocide
caused by Israel'
Most of the people making that noise are either generic anti-semites who now have a rally going, or people who don't understand the situation and consider all victim groups to be fungible. They're making college campuses intolerable, so I have to assume they're making Silicon Valley intolerable as well.
Honestly I have to question how Google is going to make it through the next couple of years when their "social consciousness" is a hundred times higher priority than their products and services. The disaster with their "AI" release isn't a one-off goof; it's clear evidence of a cancer that has metastasized throughout the company.
I was trying to download a file from Google Drive with Pale Moon and a new tab opened up but wouldn't load. I tried Firefox, no dice. I tried Safari, nada. I tried Chrome and it magically worked. GRRRRRRRRRRR! Screw you Google, screw you!
PS: Please share your files with something other than Google Drive.